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a.
Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
v. t.
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
n.
One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
n.
A reformer.
a.
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
v. i.
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
n.
A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.
n.
One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
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Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
n.
An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
v. t.
To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
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Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.
n.
Want of reformation; state of being unreformed.
v. t.
A monk of a reformed order.
adv.
In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
n.
A reformado.
n.
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
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The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
a.
Capable of being reformed.
v. i.
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
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